{"id":2021,"date":"2004-06-29T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T16:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2021.html"},"modified":"2004-06-29T11:16:33","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T16:16:33","slug":"about-that-first-victory-in-the-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/about-that-first-victory-in-the-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"About that &#8216;first victory in the war on terror&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/11\/20031124-6.html\">November 24, 2003<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Working with a fine coalition, our military went to Afghanistan, destroyed the training camps of al Qaeda, and put the Taliban out of business forever.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/06\/15\/karzai\/index.html\">June 15, 2004<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Coalition forces, including many brave Afghans, have brought America, Afghanistan and the world its first victory in the war on terror. Afghanistan is no longer a terrorist factory sending thousands of killers into the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reality, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/international\/international-afghan-election-killings.html?hp\">June 27, 2004<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taliban guerrillas kidnapped and killed 16 people in an Afghan province after finding them with voter registration cards for the country&#8217;s September elections, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The killings Friday night in the province of Zabul were the most serious attack yet on the elections, which the Taliban and allied Islamic militants have vowed to disrupt.<\/p>\n<p>News of the violence came a day after a bomb killed two young women, one a student, working to register voters for the U.N.-Afghan electoral body in the eastern city of Jalalabad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s two missions, neither of which have been accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush, November 24, 2003: &#8220;Working with a fine coalition, our military went to Afghanistan, destroyed the training camps of al Qaeda, and put the Taliban out of business forever.&#8221; Bush, June 15, 2004: &#8220;Coalition forces, including many brave Afghans, have brought America, Afghanistan and the world its first victory in the war on terror. Afghanistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}